Overview of Cost Optimization

Viewing Cost Optimization Summary

You can view all cost optimization recommendations and follow them as needed.

1. Log in to Cost Center.
2. Choose Cost Optimization.
3. View the summary of all cost optimization recommendations.

   

   Field	Description
   Data Scope	You can filter cost optimization recommendations by enterprise project or linked account. When unified accounting management is enabled, an enterprise master account can view the optimization recommendations for all its associated member accounts, but the member accounts can only view the recommendations for their own resources. NOTE: An enterprise master account can select enterprise projects by linked account, except the default enterprise project and those not categorized.
   Cost optimization opportunities	You can view the total number of opportunities, including those for resource optimization and billing mode changes. Resource optimization consists of: Optimizing idle EIPs Optimizing idle EVS disks Optimizing idle load balancers Billing mode changes include: Changing ECS billing from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly Changing RDS billing from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly Changing EVS billing from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly Changing SFS Turbo billing from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly Changing ELB billing from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly Purchasing ECS Savings Plans
   Applicable resources	Total number of resources to be optimized.
   Estimated monthly savings	Estimated costs that can be saved when all optimization recommendations are adopted.

4. View the details about cost optimization in a graph or list.

   

   You can click View Details in the Operation column to view the details about resources identified in a specific cost optimization opportunity.

   Opportunity	Reference
   Optimizing idle EIPs	Optimizing EVS, EIP, and ELB Resources
   Optimizing idle EVS disks	Optimizing EVS, EIP, and ELB Resources
   Optimizing idle load balancers	Optimizing EVS, EIP, and ELB Resources
   Changing ECS billing from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly	Changing Pay-per-Use to Yearly/Monthly
   Changing RDS billing from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly	Changing Pay-per-Use to Yearly/Monthly
   Changing EVS billing from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly	Changing Pay-per-Use to Yearly/Monthly
   Changing SFS Turbo billing from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly	Changing Pay-per-Use to Yearly/Monthly
   Changing ELB billing from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly	Changing Pay-per-Use to Yearly/Monthly
   Purchasing ECS Savings Plans	Purchasing Savings Plans

Subscribing to Cost Optimization

When you toggle on Subscribe, you will receive cost optimization recommendations based on the schedule you configure.

Before you enable this function, configure notification methods for Cost Management in Message Center. For details, see Configuring Message Receiving Methods.

1. Log in to Cost Center.
2. Choose Cost Optimization.
3. Turn on the toggle Subscribe in the upper right corner of the displayed page.

   

4. Set the subscription frequency and date, and specify recipients.

   

5. Receive a summary of cost optimization recommendations from Cost Center on the date you scheduled.

   

Exporting Cost Optimization Recommendations

You can export all cost optimization recommendations and determine whether to adopt the recommendations based on your site requirements.

1. Log in to Cost Center.
2. Choose Cost Optimization.
3. Click Export Recommendations in the upper right corner of the page.
4. Select the optimization recommendations to export and click OK.

   

5. Go to the Export History page to download the exported file.